A huge thanks to everyone supporting the channel this year, as always if you enjoy drop a like thanks for watching!. This is the first time I have teamed up with someone like Audible and hope you guys will use and enjoy the free Audiobook offer, its a good opportunity to have something to listen to over XMAS hope you all have a good one. I know many ppl have asked about the Chaos Origins video - this will be continuing but just for one reason and another it got put back, but it will be coming up in the new year.
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I've given a few donations and am happy to keep doing so, I enjoy the work and effort you put in to cover the 40k and Judge Dread universe you got me back into the hobby with the Imperium of man lore videos , also watching on twitch has just made it worse thank you so much it helps me hide away for a bit.
The thought of one of these machines ”dreaming” and twitching in the hold of a spacecraft while in transport is one of the most ominous things ive ever heard.
In the Voice of Mars novel, during warp transit on the Sepranza, an Ark Mechanicus, a Titan and it's princeps had a very nasty nightmare. The result was the Titan "waking up" and firing off a plasma shot from one of it's gigantic cannons. The plasma shot basically went through the entire Arc Mechanicus and caused the entire expedition to be forced to exit warp travel because the Gellar field generator was injured along with some parts of the reactor core.
@@-Seeker- Wasn't it a case of the Titan having PTSD? The machine spirit was having a nightmare flashback to when they fought Tyranids, and was re-enacting the moment the swarm started to overwhelm the Titan.
It comes as no surprise that when Orks first witnessed an emperor titan they felt truly humbled and afraid, an alien emotion for orks. They heard the humans refer to it as "the emperor" that vague, never seen warboss of all humanity that all pink skins followed but was never seen. For orks, this was a foreign concept. A leader always led from the front, revelling in the carnage where the fighting was thickest. The strongest, largest ork was always the boss, always proving their strength in battle. When they first saw an emperor titan they realized a warboss that huge, that powerful, with that scale of firepower, it was no wonder humans everywhere obeyed even if it wasn't around. Before too long, the first gargants began to roll out of mek workshops as orks constructed effigies of their own gods, just as the humans had.
@@hanglewster9626 Not really, Orks can stick a bunch of bits together and call it a Titan. Then through sheer willpower and belief that it WILL move and function......it does. Well sometimes, sometimes it just makes a really fun boom
Orks kind of have a genetic understanding on how to make new things. It is by design. The more orks there is, the more this knowledge becomes aviable. Moreover, orks "WHAAAG" fields act as a nessesary step in this process, as the energy allows the orks to distort reality even more. Gargants, by all metics, should fall into a pile of scrap by simply shooting their gun, but they don't, simply because orks beleive that strapping a refurbished marcrocannon they got from somewhere on a bunch of scrap metal will make a pretty boom so it must work! And because orks can litteraly will things to be if their field is strong enough, it works. That being said, start killing orks, or destroy their cohesion, and suddently shit may simply stop working
Somewhere deep in the bowels of the mars manufactorum is an STC with ancient polaroid cameras, and several polaroid's each showing 1/42th of the emperors massive peen.
I've loved the lore of both 40K and Fantasy for years, but it's still cool to watch these videos because I like to hear different points of view and maybe learn some things I don't know.
His Horus Heresy video is what introduced me to 40k sometime last year but I didnt get very deep into it. What made me fall in love with it this year was actually If the emperor had a text to speech device oddly enough
1 additional fact: Imperial Titans like armored tanks of ancient terra, are capable of making tea for their crew. Its in TitanDeath pg 388, 3rd paragraph
"Okay, machine spirit, show me what you've got!" *"Firing."* (One devastated battlefield later) "That was, uh...the casualties on their side, that was good. But the casualties on _our_ side -" *"Would you like a cup of tea?"* "Uh...yes. Thank you." *"Guardsmen can be replaced. Earl Grey is truly lost knowledge."*
@@Jackhatfieldfreediver funny because it would actually be a good way to cook insane amounts of tea at the same time, even one Warlord Titan could probably cook tea for thousands upon thousands of people.
1:00:10 - Emperor Titans must be taller than 55 meters. If they are indeed "walking cathedrals", with torsos large enough to house fusion reactors and engineering crews, and legs large enough to house entire squadrons of Astartes in a fashion that wouldn't give them concussions every time the Titan takes a step, then I would estimate the height of an Emperor Titan at closer to 250 meters. For reference, the Chartres Cathedral in France is 113 meters tall, so if you equipped Chartres Cathedral with a pair of huge robot arm-cannons and a set of huge robot legs, that would give you a reasonable estimate of what an Emperor Titan looks like.
Late post, but the titan heights are all over the place, they used to be rediculously massive, but they have made them smaller for some reason. In Imperator wrath of the god machine, astartes are having running gun battles in the cathedral. No idea how you could house all the man power you described at only 55m. I look back at the old titan art and sigh in disappointment.
@@TheAtomicSpoon: They were probably scaled down so tabletop players wouldn't need to build actual cathedrals on legs for their soldiers to ride in and fight in. Although, having a whole separate mobile playing surface that moves around the main board would be awesome if the logistical issues were overcome.
Never played the game, or had any knowledge of 40k. Found one of your Videos by chance. It’s been incredibly entertaining. Thank you sir. Your content is on another level.
@@biggydx If you are brand new to warhammer, then the beginners guide on my channel home page - otherwise, just mix it up, it will all make sense in the end
"So... here it is. Your new warmachine." "Looks good. But can you make it bigger?" "Uh...sure, yeah, there you go." "Now more gun." "What?" "More gun." "Okay..... and now?" "Bigger and more gun." "This is getting quite excessive, Sir, I don't think we sh-" "BIGGER. MORE. GUN." "Phew....okaaayy....so... I think that's it. It's pretty much impossible to go even further..." *"BIGGER! MORE! GUN!"* "A-as you wish....is that enough?" "Make it walk one step forward." *a mountain range gets shattered by the shockwave "Acceptable."
given the imperial strategy being "sending wave after wave of my own men" then guardsmen's survival rate when marching under the main gun is not inferior than elsewehere on the battlefield I suppose
Luetin, in the Adeptus Titanicus rulebook, on page 27, under the "class, scale and points value," section, it reads "Titans are built in strict adherence to the specifications laid down by a standard template construct (STC)... The three most common classes are the mighty Warlord Titan, the mainstay Reaver Titan, and the agile Warhound Titan." I think that this proves that all titans are built from STCs, like you intelligently predicted. But also, this is just one book.
The Castigator-Class-Titan was created during the Dark Age of Technology, and was the original Titan design, with all newer variants being incomplete attempts at copying the specifications.
Even without official references, we could easily and accurately assess that there would be STC available for Titan design because they are produced in *classes* where they may have at least 85% commonality with one another. If this was not the case almost every single Titan would be wholly unique in design save for those built side-by-side.
@Jope Lamp no heresy here, inquisitor 👀 side by side. Not mirrored. Thankfully we have STC's to follow so we dont have to make them up on the spot as we go.
TFW: the lore behind a work of fiction is so deep and filled with hearsay that you almost become an archaeologist and/or a tech priest yourself trying to find the origin of a single class of weapon system.
This is probably the best and most unique part of 40k, the lore itself is SO convoluted that it feels as if you're actually in the universe when learning stuff
Luetin, you seem like the kind of person who is self aware enough - after reading comments, and seeing the success of your channel - to know that you are good at what you do. But just in case there is any doubt, let me be as blunt as possible: you make the best Warhammer 40K lore videos on UA-cam. Period. Full stop. End of story. I swear some of your lore videos could be considered "the best WH40K movie ever made", even though they weren't created for that purpose. Just know that you are appreciated.
I've never thought that the stated height of titans were very accurate for the artwork. You said that an Emperor titan might be 50 meters tall. An Olympic-size pool is 50 meters in length. Seems to me that an Emperor titan is a LOT taller than an Olympic-size pool just turned on it's end.
Yeah I have the same problem all the time. The biggest titans must be bigger than 100m tall some of the art work makes emperor titans look closer to say 500m tall or bigger even, especially with bloody church's on thier shoulders.
ppl evne joke aronud that the best way ot represent a possible Emperor class titan miniature would jsut just having the player stand on top of the table.
Titans can definitely be taller than 50 meters, according to official lore: _“Black, humanoid figures paced slowly in across the limits of the palace sprawl. They were shaped like armoured men, and they trudged like men, but they were giant, each one hundred and forty meters tall. The Mechanicum had deployed a half-dozen of its Titan war engines.”_ *- Horus Rising, pg. 19* _“Without the technology to continue to construct these behemoths of war, many of which were over a hundred metres in height, the Adeptus Mechanicus had clearly deemed it fit to mount these artillery pieces upon tracked crawler units, but the effectiveness of the weapons remained awesome.”_ *- Dark Apostle, pg. 46* People forget that the size of Imperial warmachines can vary greatly depending on which Forge World is constructing them, what materials are available, what millennium it is, etc etc.
Personally, I think Emperor-class Titans would be something like 500-1000 meters tall, including the spires and all that. The Burj Khalifa in Dubai is 830 meters at its tip, and that seems about equivalent to what I would expect from something that can fire mini-stars at people.
Titans are in essence the purest forms of war, and long ago the Titans Legions were unnumbered in its strength and glory, but after the Horus Heresy the proud legions are no more. The Titans Legions are just shadows of their former strength of today’s modern Imperium, and now their strength is needed more than ever before. Power is something that we as mankind can respect and fear, the Titans are this in its purity.
i just imagine the tau setting up a gun line...feeling tremors as hard as earth quakes.....and then they see it over the horizon.....a titanic figure of unimaginable power strides toward them...a warlord titan....and then it just blares its war horns so hard that the tau gun line reals back in shock.....the god machines have come......
@@calyokayu2320 That's because the Tau thought titans were only propaganda made by the Imperium. When they found out they actually weren't, things fell apart faster than Abaddon's arms.
Gizmat Alcoholic imagine your whole life these mega machines were just propaganda then the sheer terror you must feel seeing it and maybe a dozen more walk the battlefield to meet your much MUCH smaller mech suits
@@ethanrajczak3041 Tau mecha are in the 10-20 M range. While the new books claim Imperial Titans are 55 M, the descriptions of people working inside are closer to the size of a Carrier or Battleship on legs.
Apprentice to Tech Priest: "Don't you think we should at least write this down?" Tech Priest "Hold on, one second- I need to make a call. Hello Inquisition?"
Job security -- the Mechanicus can't afford to fire you (out of a cannon, into the sun) if you're the only one who knows how to build or fix an important device.
Nah I am sure it's all written down, safely on their note pad file... on Windows 40k. Sure there is the occasional blue screen of death, corruption of data, conflict errors and illegal drivers. But hey it comes with solitare right?
@@JustaGuy_Gaming They have files listed by alphabetical order and it takes years to scroll down through literal yottabites of files and stc’s (varrying from Malcador tanks to hand mixers) all the way to T and by then the problem has probably already been fixed so the adept simply closed the file and gets up to something else
Go ahead write it down as an engineer who works on robots you are more likely to run out of papers than store enough relevant and retrievable information for multiple people to PHDs in different domains it would require to build a robot from scratch today. The coding alone would be a nightmare and that's the easy part.
So it's basically head cannon for me now that Luetin is some sort of tech priest or scribe on Terra scouring the very bowls of the great library composing all of humanities history for future generations since in 40k knowledge is either lost or simply erased/stifled and if you dare try to find out you would get called a heretic and have your head blown off so he is taking a very great risk whenever all of the some knowledge he find he puts in a visual auditorial template for who ever dares to also seek knowledge anyways thats what it feels like to me, I'm very new to the 40k community and honestly I love these stories they are always so badass like his vid about the grey knights and how they fought in the warp trying to get back to earth to lend reenforcments to the besieged defenders I got literal goose bumps towards the end of that one
You do not realize Brothers. We are all taking a great risk being here. lest some Inquisitor gets wind of our vox universum. Humanities only salvation in these trying times is knowledge! Long live the Emperor! Long live the Imperium!
Boisegang Such were the times before thee emperors grace... For how canst thou be clean, if all thou knowest is heathen filth? Lo did he not, but then safe us all?
Sir we cannot bring them to the church for cleansing quick enough. Then bring the church to them. *and through a minor misunderstanding humanity created the titans
Imperial titans 1-0-1 for me is to do with scale. In the name of selling Forge World model kits, much of the newer lore depicts titans as being far smaller than their depiction in the classic artwork, with a Warlord being about 35 metres tall, and even an Imperator topping out at about 55 metres, but whatever the current lore might say in the name of selling kits, to me a titan is emblematic of the insanity of the 40K setting. It is not just a war engine; it is a prayer to the Ommissiah wrought in massive gears, vast plasma reactors that shackle the burning might of a miniature star, and hyper powered weapons systems. It is an incarnate mechanical god of war birthed into reality by means of the only half remembered techno-arcana of the Martian Priesthood. It is all these things, and should be constructed on a scale grand enough to reflect its symbolic significance to the tech-cults of the Imperium. For me, a battle titan should stand hundreds of metres tall - a walking mountain of armour, void shields and city vaporising, world breaking firepower whose every step should make the earth tremble like a frightened beast even from miles away. For an ordinary guardsman, to look upon a titan is to stand with your sanity teetering on the brink of madness, uncomprehending of how such a mighty machine can even exist at all, still less be the product of the artifice of humanity. To stand opposed to such a puissant device is to know hopeless despair - for how can such an adversary ever be laid low by weapons designed to destroy vehicles built to a merely mortal scale? Games Workshop is a business first and has to sell kits and make money - that is fair enough. But for war gamers like yours truly, we all know in our hearts what a titan really is.
Couldn't agree more. I always regard the Emperor Titans as being disgustingly tall. Especially since they're supposed to have troop and vehicle decks at the base of the legs.
@@johnoneill3654 Exactly. Emperor titans are also supposed to have a full blown, fortified and weapon encrusted cathedral on their shoulders, but if they are 55 meters tall, that is less a cathedral and more a roughly average sized detached house. Bearing in mind the monolithic scope of Imperial architecture, for that to be a full scale Imperial Basilica on the shoulders of an Imperator (such a basilica itself would be several hundred meters tall), the titan would need to be truly vast in scale.
@@gregorygreenwood-nimmo4954 I understand they changed the sizes for the tabletop but as a lore lover myself I'm not happy unless the largest of the God machines is scrapping the atmosphere and making entire populations shit themselves.
@that guy, over yonder A good solution and something I believe most people would have understood and accepted. But apparently GW disagree with. They clearly need to keep their reputation as a company that has no plot holes or inconsistencies in the lore....... 🤭
My mate challenged my ultrasmurfs to a single fight with a reaver imp knight. Basilisk cannon and Vulcan cannon, no missile pod. I had four squads of marines with dedicated antivehicle weapons, a command squad, a rhino and a Razorback. Laser cannons got one lucky shot on the hull, Knight immediately destroyed the one that got the shot through then stomped on everyone else.
What I expected: The history/evolution, variations, and tech behind Titans. What I got: 20 straight minutes of “Titan construction uses STCs; Change my mind”.
I keep coming back to this one. The intro of this leaves me speechless with all my hairs stand up straight. The voice acting and atmosphere is SO perfectly grimdark it should be placed somewhere as an example.
I think of the "Scout Titans" to be more like Skirmishers, sent out to harass the enemy, gauging their strength so that the higher-ups can better plan where to deploy the larger titans
It possibly isn't a lack of knowledge that prevents the manufacture of certain titans, it's likely a much more pragmatic thing. Emperor class titans represent an exponentially larger investment both in resources and in required auxiliary equipment. Simply put it could just be inefficient to use those resources to build one super-massive titan as opposed to manufacturing 10 warhound class titans. Therefore it's not that they can't for lack of knowledge but they simply can't afford the level of investment when the same resources could be used more efficiently. Regardless, fantastic video. You knocked this out of the park. Oh, and Merry Sanguinalia.
Is the imperium that limited in its resources tho? I'm pretty sure the imperium has more than enough resources to build countless numbers of emperor class titans.
Butting in here with Titans and STCs, we do have a source of sorts: The Castigator Titan / STC from Dark Adeputs by Ben Counter. I have that book in onmibus form (The Grey Knights Omnibus), so I must quote chapter and approximate location, not page numbers. The book is rife with information, though none of it is definite, it comes the closest to anything I've found on the subject. First there is the definitive statement, from the closing lines of chapter 18. While not utterly concussive (that comes from the epilogue, cited later) It is straightforward enough: Hawkespur: " 'I don't think the Dark Mechanicus are controlling it.'she said, her voice a whisper, 'it was the Titan that was controlling them. I think that's the Standard Template Construct.' " Then there is the exchange, covering several pages, between the Castigator and Alaric in the last pages of Chapter 19. Alaric is talking to the controlling intelligence of the Titan in question, called the Castigator: Alaric: " 'You are the Castigator-calls bipedal weapons platform!' shouted Alaric. "You were created as the blueprint for this war machine.' " From this we can draw forth that the Castigator is not the Titan itelf, but rather the STC for A titan, and an old one. As the rest of the chapter unfolds, it becomes clear that the Castigator is indeed a blueprint for Titans, and that other Titan designs (Reavers and Warhounds are mentioned by name) are *derivative* designs. From later in that same chapter: The Castigator: " 'Perhaps, it is true,' the Castigator replied. 'The historical records and theoretical research have not suggested one such as me and I no longer follow the purpose of the Standard Template Construct.' " From these two quotes, and the text around them, we can draw forth that the Castigator is (or rather *was* - plot point, not spoiling it!) an STC. Lastly, there is the closing paragraphs of chapter 20 (and the book): "A new vault was assigned and coded and the information was typed into it in pure binary by one of those ancient, hooded figures who were closer to the Omnissiah than anyone who lived. That information concerned a world named Chaeroneia and the Standard Template Construct that had been found and lost there. It was the STC for the most awesome of war machines - the Titan, the god-machine - and it had been, according to all the data gathered, pure and complete as no STC had ever been before." From all of this, I purpose that the AdMech and Dark AdMech builds derivative Titan models - from Warhound to Imperator - based on scraps of STCs. We also know, from the Dark Heresy book Adeptus Mechanicus, that full-tank immersion for Princepts used to be non-standard. by the time of the 40th Millenium, it was standard for every Titan larger then a Warhound. I would put forth that if the AdMech had a complete STC, then they would not waver from it when building Titans. This tells me that they have enough parts to assemble Titans, but nothing like an utterly complete and original STC. Theyt have all of the critical systems, a working knowledge of how those should fit together, a large number of surviving functional examples, and the original plants in which they were built. They can cargo-cult Titans together in a process that takes years, if not decades, to complete, and only at Forgeworlds with existing Titan workshops and assembly plants. In summary, Does the AdMech build Titans on passed-down knowledge alone? No, they have STC fragments. Do they have a complete STC for Titans? No.
Imperium princeps: extensive training so they can exert control over the titan's machine spirit and not become addicted to apocalyptic levels of destruction Traitor princeps: *BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD!* as they proceed to teamkill everyone unfortunate enough to be in their line of sight
Your library of lore videos is getting so huge, I can spend days just listing to it all. I love how many hour long plus segments have been added to the collection like this one. Killin it man keep it up!
On STC's and Titan construction: could this be a case where STC standing for both Standard Template Construct and Standard Template Constructor leads to confusion? Just because the Titans are an STC design doesn't mean the Adeptus Mechanicus in 40k's current timeframe have access to an automated STC facility to build them. That could also explain the Castigator Titans superiority to the Imperium's designs: the Mechanicus (Mechanicum at the time, I suppose) had to simplify and downgrade the old designs to make it possible to build them without access to the original production facilities. This is, however, 100% ass-pulled speculation, so hey.
Some of the most extensive, well narrated, 40k stuff I've seen in a long time. And the production value is superb, the music, images and narration come together to make an exceptional series of videos. You've got a new subscriber buddy
Could the Castigator even be believed? It had been corrupted by a demon, so it could have been bragging and lying. Perhaps it didn't know much of anything.
Actually, Initially, the Castigator didn't know it was a Deamon. It had been isolated so long it had forgotten its own past. The Grey Knight fighting it had to convince it it was a Deamon before he could fight it properly. It seemed, in the book at least, to be giving a frank and truthful description of its past. It was even thankful to the Grey Knight, thanking him profusely even, for teaching it what it was and giving it purpose.
37:00 if the Astartes had to rely on others for transportation, it'd severely effect their main use as being one of the few military assets that can quickly and effectively respond to trouble, after all, with their own transport they can receive a request for aid, and not have to wait around before being able to go there.
What if the Castigator class titan was the master design for all modern titans but the head was redesigned to the chest to phase out the AI that originally piloted it?
Gotta love the inquisitorial twitch in your dialogue at 59:00 when talking about losing the knowledge of building emperor class titans Luetin: WHAT FOOL HAS LOST THIS SACRED KNOWLEDGE!!!! THIS HERESY I HAVE A BOLT IN THE BARREL JUST FOR THEM!!! Loyal servant: you were telling the grand tale of the sacred titans milord Luetin: ah yes were was I?
It is crazy to me that social media has changed made up role playing worlds into almost real universes. Channels like this make these universes come to life.
If the eldar was still at their pre fall heights then every race in the universe would be completely fucked. The height of technology the eldar reached was so high that death became a mere inconvenience for them and building planet sized craftworlds could be done in literal seconds.
If any faction (other than the T'au) were at full power they'd just curbstomp the others without a single speedbumb. Although if it were every faction at full might battle royal my money would be on the necron, but only if they still had access to the c'tan, otherwise its chaos, Eldar, humanity, orks, or rather krorks and then tyranids because nids at full power (as far as we know) is just a fuck ton of them at once
@@roguepsykerhaaker4813 although I do see what you mean, human technology was much more terrifying than just the Titans during the Dark Age of Technology. A experimental time travel vessel from this time could destroy an entire Imperium Fleet with ease while the vessel had no living crew. Check out this UA-camrs video on the STC subject matter it is more than just about blueprints.
@@thedarkmaster4747 It really doesn't matter, Ork titan or a single war boy, they aint running. One is significantly more likely to hurt the titan, but that means fuck all to the ork 'mind'.
Reid Wallace "Da bigger dey iz, da hardda dey fowll... And dey iz massiv!?!?!?!? Ahh! Hahahaha!!!!" Fun aside though, ork moral is a two edged sword, it's just more exadurated than it normally is in most races. You can break orks(after you fight them). So they're not complete kamakazi lunatics. The dark eldar kind of are the perfect moral counter race for orks. That said though a fully adrenalized princeps is in the same "head space" as the ork litterally bitting his titans ankle. In some ways, 40k can be quite the happy place.
Leutin, I hope you know, you’ve been bringing so many new fans to 40k. Also for people like me, I came across 40k in elementary school. Was at a mall in Frankfurt. Saw some figures in the window, ever since I’ve adored 40k. But you help me enjoy it even more, thanks.
I love these deep-dive hour+ long vids. Unlike a great many very lazy wiki-reading 40K UA-camrs, your content is always well-researched and sourced from multiple places or noted if otherwise. I appreciate that effort, you're doing the lore justice, not just reading off Lexicanum, verbatim.
STC printouts are printed designs. As for hard drives those are no longer in use after the hard drives tried to kill all of humanity (the STC databases had AIs after all).
Also on a non-gushing dork thing id like to add. I am not a table top player, but i have been reading for about 16 years. that being said, 98% of my exposure to 40k is through the words of black library authors. Every time ive read about a titan's death. i always get the sense that it was irreplaceable. Both for Titans and Imperial Knights. Ive always understood that they can be repaired to a degree, but not fully constructed.
As far as I understand from the lore, they can build titans from scratch(except maybe imperators, those sound irreplaceable). They are just hard to build.
In the first Dawn of War game, one of the expansions' campaigns is entirely around capturing and controlling an individual, damaged titan buried in the ground. Like an entire war between Orks, Imperials, Eldar, and Chaos with thousands of casualties is fought over the right to dig up a damaged piece of technology that may not even work and has possibly been out of commission for thousands of years. That's how fucking valuable a single titan can be.
Warlords are constructed en masse on Mars and Ryza. Reavers are produced less and less as they are smaller and less powerful, and Warlord is currently the most popular one as compared to Horus Heresy
It's a fucken crime that we dont have an animated 40K series that just tells different stories like these from all over the imperium. We don't even need a consistent story just short little episodes giving us more of the universe we love. I would love to see a titan in it's TRUE devastating glory and the best way to do that is animation.
Luetin, it's great to see you cover titans specifically, you always talk about them in detail but never in a dedicated video, also, hows your throat? Anyways thanks for the vid as always and happy holidays!
Engineer, please help us! The imperial guard are decimated and down to knives and bayonets,. The space Marines have disappeared on their suicide mission. The xenos are at the gates and the wall guns are silent. What shall we do!! Enginseer:. Worry not and praise the Omnissiah. The god machine has finally awoken.
AI remnants in 40K: "You humans are nothing , I can count to infinity and beyond. And piss while sneezing" Humans in 40K: "Silent trash. If you where so powerful how humans won against AI rebellion ?"
Seriously though the Titans have to have some kind of gravidic dampeners to be able to function. The sheer weight of them would cause a majority of the designs (depending on the planet) to flat out sink into the ground. They have the weight of mountains condensed onto 2 legs, its not spread out enough. Every step would probably keep going down till it hit bed rock. So desert planets are right out. Also the imperium has a lot of high gravity worlds and ocean worlds do they have special titans just for those environments?
A friend of mine painted some war hammer models waaaaay back in the day, thought it had a cool aesthetic...so glad I dived into some lore on UA-cam , wow this shit is deep!
Hard for me to overstate how much I love the intro to this video. You could write a whole book series on the mood and atmosphere of that monologue. Amazing
As a faithful servant of the Omnissiah I am happy to see this, hopefully we'll get more Mechanicus videos. No one so far has done anything on the Skitarii that I've seen, maybe somewhere down the line Leutin?
I am glad this video cleared up a lot of misconceptions about Titans. Specifically, a lot of people seem to think they are invincible on their own and need no support when they do in fact have key vulnerabilities. A really good example is from the short story "A Hunt in the Dark" where a small force of Ravenwing Black Knights are able to destroy a Chaos Titan by getting in close without being detected, ride through the Void Shields, and detonate Melta Charges against its legs causing it to topple.
I didn't think it would be possible to make your lore videos even better. I was wrong. Simply outstanding by any measure. Surely the Emperor himself is pleased.
Fun fact: The opening audio log seemed abit familiar to me, retired military here. The log seems to be inspired by the video "What Does a Nuclear Bomb Explosion Feel Like", you can actually find it on UA-cam. The points are made very similarly.
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Where do you think warhammer is heading especially for the imperium of man
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Glad you got a sponsor from audible really fits with the theme of your channel “moving up in the world eh?”
@@reubensullivan8849 As with anyone I've ever worked with, I only work with ppl who I think its worth it for my audience, thats why I included all the ppl I asked on Twitter recently. I know a lot of ppl who watch me already use Audible, so it seemed a pretty obvious collab. I also use it and think its probably the best audiobook service around for 40K
I've given a few donations and am happy to keep doing so, I enjoy the work and effort you put in to cover the 40k and Judge Dread universe you got me back into the hobby with the Imperium of man lore videos ,
also watching on twitch has just made it worse thank you so much it helps me hide away for a bit.
The thought of one of these machines ”dreaming” and twitching in the hold of a spacecraft while in transport is one of the most ominous things ive ever heard.
In the Voice of Mars novel, during warp transit on the Sepranza, an Ark Mechanicus, a Titan and it's princeps had a very nasty nightmare. The result was the Titan "waking up" and firing off a plasma shot from one of it's gigantic cannons. The plasma shot basically went through the entire Arc Mechanicus and caused the entire expedition to be forced to exit warp travel because the Gellar field generator was injured along with some parts of the reactor core.
@@-Seeker- Wasn't it a case of the Titan having PTSD? The machine spirit was having a nightmare flashback to when they fought Tyranids, and was re-enacting the moment the swarm started to overwhelm the Titan.
@@ScreamingTc Yep. PTSD flashback nightmare.
@@-Seeker- Oh the novels were such a good read
Only warhammer 40k is grimdark enough that the battles give weaponized mountains ptsd induced nightmares.
Imagine a Titanfall game in the 40k setting. The mere thought of that makes me sing praises to the Omnissiah.
QorinHalfhand. Getting the themes of titanfall to mesh with 40k sounds like a fun job
Imperial knight incoming.....
In that case, the very announcement "stand by for titan fall" might mean "victory!"
Get your resume to respawn
What about a Exoforce(lego) 40k titanfall collab
Titans in 40k can be summarised pretty easily
"Visit the holy church of the emperor of mankind before it visits you"
That sounds like Tau, prepare for crusade to your house, you heretic.
I laughed way too hard at this 😂😂
Why is the church moving towards us?
@@myorigaccisbroken be faithful or judgment (the church that are on the titan back) will come.
REJOICE FOR YOUR CITY SHALL BE BAPTIZED in fire REJOICE
It comes as no surprise that when Orks first witnessed an emperor titan they felt truly humbled and afraid, an alien emotion for orks. They heard the humans refer to it as "the emperor" that vague, never seen warboss of all humanity that all pink skins followed but was never seen. For orks, this was a foreign concept. A leader always led from the front, revelling in the carnage where the fighting was thickest. The strongest, largest ork was always the boss, always proving their strength in battle. When they first saw an emperor titan they realized a warboss that huge, that powerful, with that scale of firepower, it was no wonder humans everywhere obeyed even if it wasn't around.
Before too long, the first gargants began to roll out of mek workshops as orks constructed effigies of their own gods, just as the humans had.
So orks kan make new titans but not the humans? :)
hanglewster why orks just think about it and it happens
@@hanglewster9626 Not really, Orks can stick a bunch of bits together and call it a Titan. Then through sheer willpower and belief that it WILL move and function......it does. Well sometimes, sometimes it just makes a really fun boom
Orks kind of have a genetic understanding on how to make new things. It is by design. The more orks there is, the more this knowledge becomes aviable. Moreover, orks "WHAAAG" fields act as a nessesary step in this process, as the energy allows the orks to distort reality even more. Gargants, by all metics, should fall into a pile of scrap by simply shooting their gun, but they don't, simply because orks beleive that strapping a refurbished marcrocannon they got from somewhere on a bunch of scrap metal will make a pretty boom so it must work! And because orks can litteraly will things to be if their field is strong enough, it works. That being said, start killing orks, or destroy their cohesion, and suddently shit may simply stop working
@@gusgrau3594 If enough Orcs believes enough :)
"Armor as thick as The Emperor"
Mmm yea tell me more about how thicc our Emperor is.
I'm calling the ordo heretic on you you warp crazed shit
The emperor may not be THICC
but the wall of guns is
GLORY TO THE OMNISSIAH’S LASGUNS
Thats...Heresy?
*"I AM THE MOTHER-BOOPING EMPEROR. IT IS NATURAL THAT I AM PRETTY HARDASS."*
Somewhere deep in the bowels of the mars manufactorum is an STC with ancient polaroid cameras, and several polaroid's each showing 1/42th of the emperors massive peen.
everybody gangsta until the church starts walking.
I giggled.
Everybody gangsta till the earth starts shaking from footsteps
Footsteps from the walking church.
And shooting
lol
People praising Luetin for the videos, let me tell you this.
I got into Warhammer this year because of these videos.
I've loved the lore of both 40K and Fantasy for years, but it's still cool to watch these videos because I like to hear different points of view and maybe learn some things I don't know.
You had us in the first half not gonna lie.
Same here
His Horus Heresy video is what introduced me to 40k sometime last year but I didnt get very deep into it. What made me fall in love with it this year was actually If the emperor had a text to speech device oddly enough
same
1 additional fact: Imperial Titans like armored tanks of ancient terra, are capable of making tea for their crew. Its in TitanDeath pg 388, 3rd paragraph
"Okay, machine spirit, show me what you've got!"
*"Firing."*
(One devastated battlefield later)
"That was, uh...the casualties on their side, that was good. But the casualties on _our_ side -"
*"Would you like a cup of tea?"*
"Uh...yes. Thank you."
*"Guardsmen can be replaced. Earl Grey is truly lost knowledge."*
Nice
Gotta fire that gun to keep the water boiled.
If you've got a better way, go tell your local inquisitor.
@@Jackhatfieldfreediver funny because it would actually be a good way to cook insane amounts of tea at the same time, even one Warlord Titan could probably cook tea for thousands upon thousands of people.
That is a must feature! For the british at least.
1:00:10 - Emperor Titans must be taller than 55 meters. If they are indeed "walking cathedrals", with torsos large enough to house fusion reactors and engineering crews, and legs large enough to house entire squadrons of Astartes in a fashion that wouldn't give them concussions every time the Titan takes a step, then I would estimate the height of an Emperor Titan at closer to 250 meters. For reference, the Chartres Cathedral in France is 113 meters tall, so if you equipped Chartres Cathedral with a pair of huge robot arm-cannons and a set of huge robot legs, that would give you a reasonable estimate of what an Emperor Titan looks like.
Late post, but the titan heights are all over the place, they used to be rediculously massive, but they have made them smaller for some reason. In Imperator wrath of the god machine, astartes are having running gun battles in the cathedral. No idea how you could house all the man power you described at only 55m.
I look back at the old titan art and sigh in disappointment.
@@TheAtomicSpoon: They were probably scaled down so tabletop players wouldn't need to build actual cathedrals on legs for their soldiers to ride in and fight in. Although, having a whole separate mobile playing surface that moves around the main board would be awesome if the logistical issues were overcome.
Shawn Elliott that would be such a blast! A battlefield on a battlefield
@@PunkRockBuddha: Indeed. The 40k version of Star Trek 3D chess, which has movable platforms.
Or in other words, if only the French didn't keep making the wrong trees of choices when it comes To warfare
Never played the game, or had any knowledge of 40k. Found one of your Videos by chance. It’s been incredibly entertaining. Thank you sir. Your content is on another level.
thanks hope you'll stick with it for the future and the rewatches ;D
Welcome to the rabbit hole my friend
Hey man, hope you're still enjoying this deep universe!
@@Luetin09 Hello. I'm new to your channel as well. Is there a video or video series of yours I should start with?
@@biggydx If you are brand new to warhammer, then the beginners guide on my channel home page - otherwise, just mix it up, it will all make sense in the end
"So... here it is. Your new warmachine."
"Looks good. But can you make it bigger?"
"Uh...sure, yeah, there you go."
"Now more gun."
"What?"
"More gun."
"Okay..... and now?"
"Bigger and more gun."
"This is getting quite excessive, Sir, I don't think we sh-"
"BIGGER. MORE. GUN."
"Phew....okaaayy....so... I think that's it. It's pretty much impossible to go even further..."
*"BIGGER! MORE! GUN!"*
"A-as you wish....is that enough?"
"Make it walk one step forward."
*a mountain range gets shattered by the shockwave
"Acceptable."
Need more guns
Put some cathedral
Never. Enough. Dakka.
@@MrAbawmidabull and the holy toaster cyberdong and younare good to go😜
@@MrAbawmidabull *DEATHWATCH TERMINATION TEAM DISPACHED TO DEAL WITH ORCS*
**When the firing of the main gun causes hundreds of your own troops to perish in a mere whisk of fine ash**
- Just Imperial Titan things
given the imperial strategy being "sending wave after wave of my own men" then guardsmen's survival rate when marching under the main gun is not inferior than elsewehere on the battlefield I suppose
Backblast Area Not Clear Commander
Have them dig a trench. They will be fine.
"Acknowledged. Fire."
You want lines of troops lined up in front of sandbags when a Titian fires, you don't want them singed.
The sandbags I mean.
I copy a comment on Titans that I liked:
Imagine a city that hates you.
This city walks. And it has nukes.
i read this, and pooed a little. yikes!
I think it's gotta be...
Time to go to church, before the church deciders it's time to come to you...
A self-propelled nuclear-powered church that wants you to die.
NUKE INCOMING FUCKING RUUUUUUUUN
Titans wipe their mech bottoms with nukes
Luetin, in the Adeptus Titanicus rulebook, on page 27, under the "class, scale and points value," section, it reads
"Titans are built in strict adherence to the specifications laid down by a standard template construct (STC)... The three most common classes are the mighty Warlord Titan, the mainstay Reaver Titan, and the agile Warhound Titan." I think that this proves that all titans are built from STCs, like you intelligently predicted. But also, this is just one book.
The Castigator-Class-Titan was created during the Dark Age of Technology, and was the original Titan design, with all newer variants being incomplete attempts at copying the specifications.
Except Imperator Titan.
I love how you quote that like its a Bible verse
'Cause it is
HAIL HUMANITY
Even without official references, we could easily and accurately assess that there would be STC available for Titan design because they are produced in *classes* where they may have at least 85% commonality with one another. If this was not the case almost every single Titan would be wholly unique in design save for those built side-by-side.
@Jope Lamp no heresy here, inquisitor 👀 side by side. Not mirrored. Thankfully we have STC's to follow so we dont have to make them up on the spot as we go.
TFW: the lore behind a work of fiction is so deep and filled with hearsay that you almost become an archaeologist and/or a tech priest yourself trying to find the origin of a single class of weapon system.
I unironically want to write whole books about the lore of this wide universe, like history book but for a fictional universe. It would be amazing.
Old comment but, nice pfp king
This is probably the best and most unique part of 40k, the lore itself is SO convoluted that it feels as if you're actually in the universe when learning stuff
I've probably commited heresey several times just thinking about 40K lore, not even considering how much of the lore I've read/listened to/watched
@@nineisamagicnumber hearsay, not heresy
Luetin, you seem like the kind of person who is self aware enough - after reading comments, and seeing the success of your channel - to know that you are good at what you do. But just in case there is any doubt, let me be as blunt as possible: you make the best Warhammer 40K lore videos on UA-cam. Period. Full stop. End of story.
I swear some of your lore videos could be considered "the best WH40K movie ever made", even though they weren't created for that purpose. Just know that you are appreciated.
I will say I do read everything, and it is appreciated. Have a great Xmas
@@Luetin09 you should do some more videos like the "First Contact Tyranids" video. The way you told the story was amazing.
Between Luet and Arch, there is quite the plethora of juicy lore vids to indulge in, indeed!
Bang on! Nothing else comes anywhere _near_ the quality of these videos. They truly are a treat!
Hear...hear 👍🏻👏👏👏👏
I've never thought that the stated height of titans were very accurate for the artwork. You said that an Emperor titan might be 50 meters tall. An Olympic-size pool is 50 meters in length. Seems to me that an Emperor titan is a LOT taller than an Olympic-size pool just turned on it's end.
Yeah I have the same problem all the time. The biggest titans must be bigger than 100m tall some of the art work makes emperor titans look closer to say 500m tall or bigger even, especially with bloody church's on thier shoulders.
ppl evne joke aronud that the best way ot represent a possible Emperor class titan miniature would jsut just having the player stand on top of the table.
@@Teixas666 Congrats! You have an Emperor Titan! You just won the tabletop game lol
Titans can definitely be taller than 50 meters, according to official lore:
_“Black, humanoid figures paced slowly in across the limits of the palace sprawl. They were shaped like armoured men, and they trudged like men, but they were giant, each one hundred and forty meters tall. The Mechanicum had deployed a half-dozen of its Titan war engines.”_
*- Horus Rising, pg. 19*
_“Without the technology to continue to construct these behemoths of war, many of which were over a hundred metres in height, the Adeptus Mechanicus had clearly deemed it fit to mount these artillery pieces upon tracked crawler units, but the effectiveness of the weapons remained awesome.”_
*- Dark Apostle, pg. 46*
People forget that the size of Imperial warmachines can vary greatly depending on which Forge World is constructing them, what materials are available, what millennium it is, etc etc.
Personally, I think Emperor-class Titans would be something like 500-1000 meters tall, including the spires and all that. The Burj Khalifa in Dubai is 830 meters at its tip, and that seems about equivalent to what I would expect from something that can fire mini-stars at people.
Titans are in essence the purest forms of war, and long ago the Titans Legions were unnumbered in its strength and glory, but after the Horus Heresy the proud legions are no more. The Titans Legions are just shadows of their former strength of today’s modern Imperium, and now their strength is needed more than ever before. Power is something that we as mankind can respect and fear, the Titans are this in its purity.
When a titan falls, it is likely it will never rise ever again. ;c
Worst part is you can't use a corrupted titan for anything bot even salvage it for parts so it's a negative gain even if you win
Idk man i think stinging insects hold that title
I love how you speak about this lore, as if it is long forgotten actual history... very enjoyable.
It's so awesome!
Wow, Howl's moving castle really stepped up the genocide in the second film.
Yeah,it's kinda sad tho that Howl wasn't even in it
...the blackships took him
Fantastic comment 😂
Didn't they bomb civilians in that film? Just saying, it might not be that much more.
Emma’s voice acting... wow. Just amazing
I thought it was from a professionally voiced game or something
It's my favorite part of this video. It's so immersive and brillant.
who's Emily?
Can't believe she actually sawr a Titan
So professionally done it gave me chills
Warprunner Titan:*teleports into battle*
Tau Warrior: oh shit, well guess I'll die
Nothing personal, kid
The fact that they gave a TITAN the ability to TELEPORT, even if it's using the warp, still fucking terrifies me
An hour and a half of luetin??? Praise the emperor!!!
also, could anyone tell me the song name at 1:27:35 ?
Death to false emperor! XD
“Praise the Omnissiah!!!”
Fixed that for you.
i just imagine the tau setting up a gun line...feeling tremors as hard as earth quakes.....and then they see it over the horizon.....a titanic figure of unimaginable power strides toward them...a warlord titan....and then it just blares its war horns so hard that the tau gun line reals back in shock.....the god machines have come......
Lol what is it 40k fans and the tau, this is like the third comment I've seen about them and they have nothing to do with the video
@@calyokayu2320 That's because the Tau thought titans were only propaganda made by the Imperium. When they found out they actually weren't, things fell apart faster than Abaddon's arms.
@@gizmatalcoholic4113 ahhh I see, damn that's a cool detail
Gizmat Alcoholic imagine your whole life these mega machines were just propaganda then the sheer terror you must feel seeing it and maybe a dozen more walk the battlefield to meet your much MUCH smaller mech suits
@@ethanrajczak3041 Tau mecha are in the 10-20 M range. While the new books claim Imperial Titans are 55 M, the descriptions of people working inside are closer to the size of a Carrier or Battleship on legs.
"The Mechanicus pass down the knowledge on how to build titans without any STCs."
Luetin: "...And I took that personally."
Apprentice to Tech Priest: "Don't you think we should at least write this down?" Tech Priest "Hold on, one second- I need to make a call. Hello Inquisition?"
Job security -- the Mechanicus can't afford to fire you (out of a cannon, into the sun) if you're the only one who knows how to build or fix an important device.
Nah I am sure it's all written down, safely on their note pad file... on Windows 40k. Sure there is the occasional blue screen of death, corruption of data, conflict errors and illegal drivers. But hey it comes with solitare right?
@@JustaGuy_Gaming They have files listed by alphabetical order and it takes years to scroll down through literal yottabites of files and stc’s (varrying from Malcador tanks to hand mixers) all the way to T and by then the problem has probably already been fixed so the adept simply closed the file and gets up to something else
@@Ballin4Vengeance damn they don't even have search function
Go ahead write it down as an engineer who works on robots you are more likely to run out of papers than store enough relevant and retrievable information for multiple people to PHDs in different domains it would require to build a robot from scratch today. The coding alone would be a nightmare and that's the easy part.
The amount of time , effort , and love that went into making this video must have been emperor titan level.
So it's basically head cannon for me now that Luetin is some sort of tech priest or scribe on Terra scouring the very bowls of the great library composing all of humanities history for future generations since in 40k knowledge is either lost or simply erased/stifled and if you dare try to find out you would get called a heretic and have your head blown off so he is taking a very great risk whenever all of the some knowledge he find he puts in a visual auditorial template for who ever dares to also seek knowledge anyways thats what it feels like to me, I'm very new to the 40k community and honestly I love these stories they are always so badass like his vid about the grey knights and how they fought in the warp trying to get back to earth to lend reenforcments to the besieged defenders I got literal goose bumps towards the end of that one
Luetinus Maximus
You do not realize Brothers. We are all taking a great risk being here. lest some Inquisitor gets wind of our vox universum. Humanities only salvation in these trying times is knowledge! Long live the Emperor! Long live the Imperium!
"Bowls of history"
Boisegang Such were the times before thee emperors grace... For how canst thou be clean, if all thou knowest is heathen filth? Lo did he not, but then safe us all?
Justanotherconsumer Grey knight inquisitors... ... ... "EXIST!?!?"
How large shall we build these Titans?
Emperor: Yes.
Omnosiah
Sir we cannot bring them to the church for cleansing quick enough.
Then bring the church to them.
*and through a minor misunderstanding humanity created the titans
@@jonathangarzon2798 Every Sororitas tank:
bigger!
how big?
bigger!
Reasonable.
Mechanicus: We need a bigger Mech.
*Looks at an Imperium Cathedral*
Mechanicus 2: You're not gonna believe this.
largest titans can be summed up into walking cathedrals with weapons placed everywhere that isn't a cathedral
Not original, but:
Everybody gangsta till the church starts walking
Bold of you to assume I won't put weapons on the part that *are* cathedral.
Or is it.. a weapon can be many things
I'd watch this shit even during Christmas while opening gift, you are our guiding light in these trying times. M' lord
merry christmas
Adeptus mechanicus: *watches transformers
Also mechanicus: "let's do that with a titan"
Its vehicular form better be a giant baneblade 😂
Someone should make a VR game where you operate a titan, you have to modulate the shields and bring the weapons to bear.
If you die or treat your Titan too harshly the headset fries your brain SAO style
OMG Amazing idea!
Also put a whole bunch of bricks on the player back
@@Ballin4Vengeance
By playing rickrolls on repeat
Imperial titans 1-0-1 for me is to do with scale. In the name of selling Forge World model kits, much of the newer lore depicts titans as being far smaller than their depiction in the classic artwork, with a Warlord being about 35 metres tall, and even an Imperator topping out at about 55 metres, but whatever the current lore might say in the name of selling kits, to me a titan is emblematic of the insanity of the 40K setting.
It is not just a war engine; it is a prayer to the Ommissiah wrought in massive gears, vast plasma reactors that shackle the burning might of a miniature star, and hyper powered weapons systems. It is an incarnate mechanical god of war birthed into reality by means of the only half remembered techno-arcana of the Martian Priesthood. It is all these things, and should be constructed on a scale grand enough to reflect its symbolic significance to the tech-cults of the Imperium. For me, a battle titan should stand hundreds of metres tall - a walking mountain of armour, void shields and city vaporising, world breaking firepower whose every step should make the earth tremble like a frightened beast even from miles away. For an ordinary guardsman, to look upon a titan is to stand with your sanity teetering on the brink of madness, uncomprehending of how such a mighty machine can even exist at all, still less be the product of the artifice of humanity. To stand opposed to such a puissant device is to know hopeless despair - for how can such an adversary ever be laid low by weapons designed to destroy vehicles built to a merely mortal scale?
Games Workshop is a business first and has to sell kits and make money - that is fair enough. But for war gamers like yours truly, we all know in our hearts what a titan really is.
Couldn't agree more. I always regard the Emperor Titans as being disgustingly tall. Especially since they're supposed to have troop and vehicle decks at the base of the legs.
@@johnoneill3654 Exactly. Emperor titans are also supposed to have a full blown, fortified and weapon encrusted cathedral on their shoulders, but if they are 55 meters tall, that is less a cathedral and more a roughly average sized detached house.
Bearing in mind the monolithic scope of Imperial architecture, for that to be a full scale Imperial Basilica on the shoulders of an Imperator (such a basilica itself would be several hundred meters tall), the titan would need to be truly vast in scale.
@@gregorygreenwood-nimmo4954
I understand they changed the sizes for the tabletop but as a lore lover myself I'm not happy unless the largest of the God machines is scrapping the atmosphere and making entire populations shit themselves.
@@johnoneill3654 Precisely.
@that guy, over yonder A good solution and something I believe most people would have understood and accepted.
But apparently GW disagree with. They clearly need to keep their reputation as a company that has no plot holes or inconsistencies in the lore....... 🤭
My mate challenged my ultrasmurfs to a single fight with a reaver imp knight. Basilisk cannon and Vulcan cannon, no missile pod.
I had four squads of marines with dedicated antivehicle weapons, a command squad, a rhino and a Razorback.
Laser cannons got one lucky shot on the hull, Knight immediately destroyed the one that got the shot through then stomped on everyone else.
Haha this is just like a free advert for the titan legions lol
I remember this comment I saw before:: "In the game, titans hunt EVERYONE. Except for Sly Marbo."
Merry Christmas luetin
HAPPY SANGUINALIA
GREAT HORNED RAT DAY!!! *COUGH*
@@Colleywoodstudios you wish 😂😂
Merry slaaneshmas everyone
And Kerensky Bless Us, Every One!
What I expected: The history/evolution, variations, and tech behind Titans.
What I got: 20 straight minutes of “Titan construction uses STCs; Change my mind”.
I keep coming back to this one. The intro of this leaves me speechless with all my hairs stand up straight. The voice acting and atmosphere is SO perfectly grimdark it should be placed somewhere as an example.
I think of the "Scout Titans" to be more like Skirmishers, sent out to harass the enemy, gauging their strength so that the higher-ups can better plan where to deploy the larger titans
58:45 "...with armor as thicc as the emperor..."
The emperor is dummy thicc
...the clap of the emperor's cheeks is what alerted the chaos gods.
@@spencerscott4878 clapping of Eldar cheeks alerted some demon bois too
You people need to read the codex
It possibly isn't a lack of knowledge that prevents the manufacture of certain titans, it's likely a much more pragmatic thing. Emperor class titans represent an exponentially larger investment both in resources and in required auxiliary equipment. Simply put it could just be inefficient to use those resources to build one super-massive titan as opposed to manufacturing 10 warhound class titans. Therefore it's not that they can't for lack of knowledge but they simply can't afford the level of investment when the same resources could be used more efficiently.
Regardless, fantastic video. You knocked this out of the park. Oh, and Merry Sanguinalia.
That makes sense because the Adeptus Mechanicus...
...Never delete anything.
Is the imperium that limited in its resources tho? I'm pretty sure the imperium has more than enough resources to build countless numbers of emperor class titans.
@nickyiil it will no doubt require the burning of incense, probably a few tonnes in order to please the machine spirit
@nickyiil Don't forget the Void Dragon
don't put your eggs in.one basket
Im sick in bed and unable to move.
Thank you Luetin of this entertainment
Get well soon dude.
Same
Feel better soon you two!
You guys any better?
Covid?
Its funny how Luetin is the only 40k youtuber I know that could spend 30 mins of a video disproving an origin story.
Titan fall
Pilot: the Titan's here! We have hope of winning this battle!
Wh40k
Guardsman: *It is what it is*
"Better come to church before church comes to you" - The Adeptus Titanicus
Butting in here with Titans and STCs, we do have a source of sorts: The Castigator Titan / STC from Dark Adeputs by Ben Counter. I have that book in onmibus form (The Grey Knights Omnibus), so I must quote chapter and approximate location, not page numbers. The book is rife with information, though none of it is definite, it comes the closest to anything I've found on the subject.
First there is the definitive statement, from the closing lines of chapter 18. While not utterly concussive (that comes from the epilogue, cited later) It is straightforward enough:
Hawkespur: " 'I don't think the Dark Mechanicus are controlling it.'she said, her voice a whisper, 'it was the Titan that was controlling them. I think that's the Standard Template Construct.' "
Then there is the exchange, covering several pages, between the Castigator and Alaric in the last pages of Chapter 19. Alaric is talking to the controlling intelligence of the Titan in question, called the Castigator:
Alaric: " 'You are the Castigator-calls bipedal weapons platform!' shouted Alaric. "You were created as the blueprint for this war machine.' "
From this we can draw forth that the Castigator is not the Titan itelf, but rather the STC for A titan, and an old one. As the rest of the chapter unfolds, it becomes clear that the Castigator is indeed a blueprint for Titans, and that other Titan designs (Reavers and Warhounds are mentioned by name) are *derivative* designs. From later in that same chapter:
The Castigator: " 'Perhaps, it is true,' the Castigator replied. 'The historical records and theoretical research have not suggested one such as me and I no longer follow the purpose of the Standard Template Construct.' "
From these two quotes, and the text around them, we can draw forth that the Castigator is (or rather *was* - plot point, not spoiling it!) an STC.
Lastly, there is the closing paragraphs of chapter 20 (and the book):
"A new vault was assigned and coded and the information was typed into it in pure binary by one of those ancient, hooded figures who were closer to the Omnissiah than anyone who lived. That information concerned a world named Chaeroneia and the Standard Template Construct that had been found and lost there. It was the STC for the most awesome of war machines - the Titan, the god-machine - and it had been, according to all the data gathered, pure and complete as no STC had ever been before."
From all of this, I purpose that the AdMech and Dark AdMech builds derivative Titan models - from Warhound to Imperator - based on scraps of STCs. We also know, from the Dark Heresy book Adeptus Mechanicus, that full-tank immersion for Princepts used to be non-standard. by the time of the 40th Millenium, it was standard for every Titan larger then a Warhound. I would put forth that if the AdMech had a complete STC, then they would not waver from it when building Titans. This tells me that they have enough parts to assemble Titans, but nothing like an utterly complete and original STC. Theyt have all of the critical systems, a working knowledge of how those should fit together, a large number of surviving functional examples, and the original plants in which they were built. They can cargo-cult Titans together in a process that takes years, if not decades, to complete, and only at Forgeworlds with existing Titan workshops and assembly plants.
In summary, Does the AdMech build Titans on passed-down knowledge alone? No, they have STC fragments. Do they have a complete STC for Titans? No.
Imperium princeps: extensive training so they can exert control over the titan's machine spirit and not become addicted to apocalyptic levels of destruction
Traitor princeps: *BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD!* as they proceed to teamkill everyone unfortunate enough to be in their line of sight
Hahahaha true
Your library of lore videos is getting so huge, I can spend days just listing to it all. I love how many hour long plus segments have been added to the collection like this one. Killin it man keep it up!
6:37 Can you imagine being the guy that's like "Luetin did you check the wiki"? Jesus, Luetin IS the wiki!
Thanks for the free audio book Will use it on the Konrad curze book. And Merry Christmas
Titans striding foward ordinati by the score they are drowning out blasfeamers beneath their great mechanic roar!
"Blasfeamers"
Glory glory omnisiah glory glory omnisiah
Tradition is our bulwark! It endures forever more! Our victory comes online!
Our victory is online!
Engage the linkage Omnisiah!
On STC's and Titan construction: could this be a case where STC standing for both Standard Template Construct and Standard Template Constructor leads to confusion? Just because the Titans are an STC design doesn't mean the Adeptus Mechanicus in 40k's current timeframe have access to an automated STC facility to build them. That could also explain the Castigator Titans superiority to the Imperium's designs: the Mechanicus (Mechanicum at the time, I suppose) had to simplify and downgrade the old designs to make it possible to build them without access to the original production facilities.
This is, however, 100% ass-pulled speculation, so hey.
I like it, well it's head cannon to me now anyways.
Some of the most extensive, well narrated, 40k stuff I've seen in a long time. And the production value is superb, the music, images and narration come together to make an exceptional series of videos. You've got a new subscriber buddy
58:55 "they feature spires or ornate wo- THEY feature spires and ORNATE work"
That bit of dialogue at the beginning, THAT is how you introduce something
Could the Castigator even be believed? It had been corrupted by a demon, so it could have been bragging and lying. Perhaps it didn't know much of anything.
Perhaps it knew more but its corruption was clouding it, we will never know because Alaric threw melta grenades in its core..
@@jimnpen8451 damn demon. That's why we can't have nice things.
There's always a kernel of Truth in every lie.
Question ye not, the gods about thy midsts... 😵📖😞🙏🕍⚡🧍♂️🤏🦶
Actually, Initially, the Castigator didn't know it was a Deamon. It had been isolated so long it had forgotten its own past. The Grey Knight fighting it had to convince it it was a Deamon before he could fight it properly. It seemed, in the book at least, to be giving a frank and truthful description of its past. It was even thankful to the Grey Knight, thanking him profusely even, for teaching it what it was and giving it purpose.
37:00 if the Astartes had to rely on others for transportation, it'd severely effect their main use as being one of the few military assets that can quickly and effectively respond to trouble, after all, with their own transport they can receive a request for aid, and not have to wait around before being able to go there.
This sounds so real, like an alternate universe explained in detail.
What if the Castigator class titan was the master design for all modern titans but the head was redesigned to the chest to phase out the AI that originally piloted it?
Gotta love the inquisitorial twitch in your dialogue at 59:00 when talking about losing the knowledge of building emperor class titans
Luetin: WHAT FOOL HAS LOST THIS SACRED KNOWLEDGE!!!! THIS HERESY I HAVE A BOLT IN THE BARREL JUST FOR THEM!!!
Loyal servant: you were telling the grand tale of the sacred titans milord
Luetin: ah yes were was I?
I saw this elsewhere, so I'll repeat it here: "Everybody gangsta till the church starts walkin'."
Happy Holidays, everyone.
For the focking Emprah!
I can imagine a Titan being so old that things just turn off and on randomly..and the Princeps just pretends like he made it do that.
It is crazy to me that social media has changed made up role playing worlds into almost real universes. Channels like this make these universes come to life.
The amount of research and dedication Luetin puts into these videos never ceases to amaze me.
So basically: if humanity had the technological knowledge they had during the Golden Age they would obliterate all factions within 40k 😮
If the eldar was still at their pre fall heights then every race in the universe would be completely fucked. The height of technology the eldar reached was so high that death became a mere inconvenience for them and building planet sized craftworlds could be done in literal seconds.
Every race but the Necrons
@@thekimjongillest1112 i think we all know they can't handle being wraithboned.
If any faction (other than the T'au) were at full power they'd just curbstomp the others without a single speedbumb. Although if it were every faction at full might battle royal my money would be on the necron, but only if they still had access to the c'tan, otherwise its chaos, Eldar, humanity, orks, or rather krorks and then tyranids because nids at full power (as far as we know) is just a fuck ton of them at once
@@roguepsykerhaaker4813 although I do see what you mean, human technology was much more terrifying than just the Titans during the Dark Age of Technology. A experimental time travel vessel from this time could destroy an entire Imperium Fleet with ease while the vessel had no living crew. Check out this UA-camrs video on the STC subject matter it is more than just about blueprints.
"The thought of fighting even a single titan is enough to give any xeno pause for thought"
Clearly sir, you have never met an Ork.
Or an ork version of a titan.
@@thedarkmaster4747 It really doesn't matter, Ork titan or a single war boy, they aint running. One is significantly more likely to hurt the titan, but that means fuck all to the ork 'mind'.
Orcs pause because they get too giddy to charge right away.
Reid Wallace "Da bigger dey iz, da hardda dey fowll... And dey iz massiv!?!?!?!? Ahh! Hahahaha!!!!" Fun aside though, ork moral is a two edged sword, it's just more exadurated than it normally is in most races. You can break orks(after you fight them). So they're not complete kamakazi lunatics. The dark eldar kind of are the perfect moral counter race for orks. That said though a fully adrenalized princeps is in the same "head space" as the ork litterally bitting his titans ankle. In some ways, 40k can be quite the happy place.
katsunada THIS^
Leutin, I hope you know, you’ve been bringing so many new fans to 40k.
Also for people like me, I came across 40k in elementary school. Was at a mall in Frankfurt. Saw some figures in the window, ever since I’ve adored 40k. But you help me enjoy it even more, thanks.
Superb info, research and background images. This was fascinating! Thank you.
I love these deep-dive hour+ long vids. Unlike a great many very lazy wiki-reading 40K UA-camrs, your content is always well-researched and sourced from multiple places or noted if otherwise. I appreciate that effort, you're doing the lore justice, not just reading off Lexicanum, verbatim.
40k- Space marines, Massive space dreadnaughts, Titanic automata, but no hard drives or written/ printed designs. LOL
Blame the men of Iron for that.
@Tech Priest not to mention the insane time scales compared to what people are used to.
STC printouts are printed designs. As for hard drives those are no longer in use after the hard drives tried to kill all of humanity (the STC databases had AIs after all).
This is the stupidest thing.
Go ahead, print schematics for, late 90s CPU ;)
Also on a non-gushing dork thing id like to add. I am not a table top player, but i have been reading for about 16 years. that being said, 98% of my exposure to 40k is through the words of black library authors. Every time ive read about a titan's death. i always get the sense that it was irreplaceable. Both for Titans and Imperial Knights. Ive always understood that they can be repaired to a degree, but not fully constructed.
As far as I understand from the lore, they can build titans from scratch(except maybe imperators, those sound irreplaceable). They are just hard to build.
@@alexflorea4294 Especially since because they are holy machines, they have to do special rituals for every single bolt and wire installed.
@@Reddotzebra don't forget the holy oils, incantations, uploading prayers and calming down the developing machine spirit.
In the first Dawn of War game, one of the expansions' campaigns is entirely around capturing and controlling an individual, damaged titan buried in the ground. Like an entire war between Orks, Imperials, Eldar, and Chaos with thousands of casualties is fought over the right to dig up a damaged piece of technology that may not even work and has possibly been out of commission for thousands of years.
That's how fucking valuable a single titan can be.
Warlords are constructed en masse on Mars and Ryza. Reavers are produced less and less as they are smaller and less powerful, and Warlord is currently the most popular one as compared to Horus Heresy
It's a fucken crime that we dont have an animated 40K series that just tells different stories like these from all over the imperium. We don't even need a consistent story just short little episodes giving us more of the universe we love. I would love to see a titan in it's TRUE devastating glory and the best way to do that is animation.
48:01 Warhound scout Titan
52:11 Reaver battle Titan
54:32 Warlord battle Titan
58:24 Emperor Titan
Luetin, it's great to see you cover titans specifically, you always talk about them in detail but never in a dedicated video, also, hows your throat? Anyways thanks for the vid as always and happy holidays!
Its improved but tough, I can talk for about 30 mins without issue, 60 mins and its hard beyond that its a real struggle
@@Luetin09 I hope you take enough time between recording sessions, we love your content and I would hate tu see you push yourself too much
THANK YOU FOR THE CHRISTMAS PRESENT!!!
*edit-I mean the vid. Always happy for your content!
Engineer, please help us! The imperial guard are decimated and down to knives and bayonets,. The space Marines have disappeared on their suicide mission. The xenos are at the gates and the wall guns are silent. What shall we do!!
Enginseer:. Worry not and praise the Omnissiah. The god machine has finally awoken.
Grabs entrenching tool, shotgun, and landmines "did some one say engineer"?
That beginning bit made me really sad. Poor Guard.
Warhammer40k: Can build power armor, giant robot gods, and fleets of giant warships, Can't seem to build washing machines
Sounds like the USA today...
@sebastianbrenner4536 the combined industrial might of the United States of America can't build a single washing machine. Cool
I'll consume any amount of titan lore. My favorite thing in 40k is titans
AI remnants in 40K:
"You humans are nothing , I can count to infinity and beyond. And piss while sneezing"
Humans in 40K:
"Silent trash. If you where so powerful how humans won against AI rebellion ?"
Xenos, probably.
*looks around
Did you win? Did you really?
@@roguepsykerhaaker4813
Pyrrhic victory is still victory if the other side is dead
@@steelbear2063 Winners usually don't wish they were dead
@@roguepsykerhaaker4813 imagine thinking dying would bring you any kind of relief lmao.....
*;-;*
Seriously though the Titans have to have some kind of gravidic dampeners to be able to function. The sheer weight of them would cause a majority of the designs (depending on the planet) to flat out sink into the ground. They have the weight of mountains condensed onto 2 legs, its not spread out enough. Every step would probably keep going down till it hit bed rock. So desert planets are right out. Also the imperium has a lot of high gravity worlds and ocean worlds do they have special titans just for those environments?
Man, that soldier woman at the start is one hell of a poetic storyteller for an army grunt.
A friend of mine painted some war hammer models waaaaay back in the day, thought it had a cool aesthetic...so glad I dived into some lore on UA-cam , wow this shit is deep!
52:11 The Vox-horns on that titan probably blare: "DOES THIS LOOK LIKE THE FACE OF MERCY?!" when engaging enemy forces.
Grimdark genesis- Titangelion
A lot more accurate than I am comfortable with.
Neon Grimdark- Titangenesis
@@KenM_1987 *Neon Grimdark Titangelion
A Blood Angel's Thesis
Warp me to the Moon
Hard for me to overstate how much I love the intro to this video. You could write a whole book series on the mood and atmosphere of that monologue. Amazing
Nice one on the Audible ad! Congrats, it's well deserved.
As a faithful servant of the Omnissiah I am happy to see this, hopefully we'll get more Mechanicus videos. No one so far has done anything on the Skitarii that I've seen, maybe somewhere down the line Leutin?
When you realise that a Titan spirit is just a cat that doesn‘t want to go in a box
I am glad this video cleared up a lot of misconceptions about Titans. Specifically, a lot of people seem to think they are invincible on their own and need no support when they do in fact have key vulnerabilities. A really good example is from the short story "A Hunt in the Dark" where a small force of Ravenwing Black Knights are able to destroy a Chaos Titan by getting in close without being detected, ride through the Void Shields, and detonate Melta Charges against its legs causing it to topple.
I didn't think it would be possible to make your lore videos even better. I was wrong. Simply outstanding by any measure. Surely the Emperor himself is pleased.
Just recently discovered your channel after going on a Dawn of War binge and I absolutely love it. Please keep it up.
I'd totally buy an audio book if luetin was voicing it
And by the gods, i never thought that warlord class are half the size of an emperor class...
Fun fact:
The opening audio log seemed abit familiar to me, retired military here. The log seems to be inspired by the video "What Does a Nuclear Bomb Explosion Feel Like", you can actually find it on UA-cam. The points are made very similarly.
I'm just 1minute 30 secs in and jeez the production level is crazy
43:00 " titans are really big" I love you luetin